Abingdon

Young designer takes textile world by storm

ONLY a year after graduating a young artist from Abingdon is taking the textile design world by storm.

Aged 22, Lollie Dunbar has been asked by women’s fashion company Wallis to design a line for their spring and summer collection.

The high street store called Miss Dunbar after she won a scarf print competition run by Liberty, the World Land Trust and her university, last December.

Miss Dunbar, daughter of Bafta award winning animator Geoff Dunbar, said two of her designs were selected and sold in the Liberty scarf hall last year.

She said: “Luckily someone from Wallis saw the scarves and managed to get in contact with me.

“They asked me to go for a meeting in London last May but I wasn’t quite sure what it was about.

“When I arrived they were throwing all these exciting ideas at me. I had to say: ‘I am really sorry but I am not actually sure what I am doing here.’ “That’s when they said that they wanted me to
design a print collection for them.

“I was so shocked that all I could think is ‘I haven’t even graduated yet’.”

The inspiration for her designs came from looking at the jewellery, pottery, tattoos and textiles at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.